He raised the stakeAnd broke the soilAnd phrased the strokeThat takes the oilAnd stoked, erased and foiled the lakeAnd smoked and boiled the grazing snakeThe roil, the choke, the cakes of praiseThe spoils that break now cloak the daysThat wake the coil of blazing cokeThe flaking glaze of royalty brokeHe raises, stakes, admires, stokesThe flowery blaze, the fiery pokes